Peter Grinspoon, MD, has some advice for clinicians when patients inevitably ask questions about microdosing of psychedelics: Keep the lines of communication open — and don’t […]

Chemotherapy has fallen out of favor for treating cancer toward the end of life. The toxicity is too high, and the benefit, if any, is often […]

Early-life and environmental exposures are more strongly linked to age at diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) than genetic factors, a large study of IBD patients […]

A recent cross-sectional study involving 804 volunteers and data from the 2016 National Health and Nutrition Survey found a high prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Mexican […]

Social media’s effects on the mental health of young people are not well understood. That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the US Surgeon General from […]

Experts are debating whether and how to define obesity, but clinicians’ attitudes and behavior toward patients with obesity don’t seem to be undergoing similar scrutiny. “Despite […]

WASHINGTON — Immunoglobulin E (IgE) and eosinophils appeared to be reliable biomarkers of type 2 inflammation in chronic pruritus of unknown origin (CPUO) and predictors of […]

Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, is on a mission. The professor of plastic surgery, surgery, neurosurgery, and neurology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, […]

A meta-analysis of 38 studies found that nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is twice as prevalent in female teenagers as it is in men in North America and […]